ok, so the "outtakes" are not "expanded" ? (for instance : Laura Nyo (still only 2 songs (Poverty Train and a little bit of the end of Wedding Bell Blues)they were not in 1080p24 contrary to the main movie "Monterey", "just" "i" but still the picture was really good.I don't know if only the main movie has the X4 treatment... (and they could re-author and re-encoded the "outtakes" blu-ray to 1080p24 (using their previous transfer) without being a X4 transfer...)

Moby Grape, Steve Miller (Blues) Band, and Grateful Dead have been added. Otherwise everything else is the same, still lossy audio, still looks like SD upscale.

They don't look any better than what was on the old Blu-ray and look like standard-def upscales sadly. I'm not at all sure why they get their own disc. They're still in Dolby Digital as well. The only advantage here are the new outtakes.

I have various region A Criterion blu rays and they all play on my region B Panasonic. (As discussed elsewhere all you need to do is to press stop after the region warning appears and then press top menu: the disc then plays.)

The odd thing about this 3 disc set is that only 2 discs work. The OTIS/HENDRIX disc will not play. Anyone got any theories? This is the first time a Criterion disc has let me down. (Fortunately I still have my original DVD set so I’m not too bothered.)

Anyone noticed that the Grateful Dead footage is edited? If you watch it on YouTube you will notice that about 1 minute is cut before the finale chorus. This is the famous ‘freakout’ section. Good to see it in better quality.

Is the Otis/Hendrix disc a clone of the old one? That wasn't restored like the main feature, so unless they added extras, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to continue pressing discs from the old disc master. Perhaps that's why the region compatibility would be different?